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For me, spiritual practice is trying to find a bigger container... so it’s not so much that there’s somebody who is wrong or there is an enemy, and there’s people who are right and who are good, but actually that within us, we contain all of the things that we are trying to fight. And within people that we think are enemies, they also contain everything that is redemptive and hopeful and healing.

I was born and raised in Cary, North Carolina, to two Chinese immigrant parents. They immigrated from Taiwan in the 1960s to come to grad school in the U.S. and they’ve stayed. So I was born and raised in the South, actually, and I have this identity as a child of immigrants and also as a Southerner. It was very interesting being Chinese-American in the South, especially in the Bible Belt...